Spicing up Django: An introduction to Mezzanine CMS

Ed Rivas

Tuesday 11:30 a.m.–noon
Audience level: Intermediate or Advanced

Description

In this talk we will explore the features baked into Mezzanine CMS, a popular content-management solution built on Django. We will also take a regular Django app and convert it to a fully-integrated Mezzanine app, learning about the goodies and shortcuts that it provides for developers. An intermediate level of Django is required, and an interest in building content-oriented sites.

Abstract

Mezzanine CMS is a popular content-management solution for Django. With a rich set of built-in features and following Django’s batteries-included approach, it can supercharge your new or existing apps for content-oriented sites.

In this talk we will explore the features that Mezzanine provides by default, and how they take care of many common content-management tasks (page creation and editing, maintaining a blog, WYSIWYG editors, SEO, and more).

We will also take an existing Django app and convert it into a fully integrated Mezzanine application. You’ll be surprised at how much of the work has been done for you, and how your existing Django skills will let you hit the ground running when working with Mezzanine.

Outline:

  1. Mezzanine tour
  2. Basic integration of custom models
  3. Advanced integration of custom models
  4. Working with templates
  5. Review
  6. Questions (if time permits)

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